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post #1 of 36
12/4/07 at 1:52pm
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So a friend of mine got shafted buying a VAIO laptop. the salesdude said it had 256mb of memory. Turns out the ACTUAL PHYSICAL memory is 8MB the rest is virtual video memory.
He cant add a video card in the laptop, so he's looking for ways to ugprade. Lokking at PCMCIA devices, is there such a thing as a PCMCIA video card or is he better to sell the damn thing and buy a modable lappy or just buying a desktop on the side?
The model is SONY VAIO PCG-7Y2L
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post #2 of 36
12/4/07 at 1:56pm
No such thing as a PCMCIA video card.

There are some ExpressCard (aka PCIe) external video card boxes... but not sure if they ever were released.
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12/4/07 at 1:56pm
Yeah, there are PCMCIA video cards.

http://sewelldirect.com/vtbookpcmciacard.asp?adpath=/Google/Video>Misc/VTBook%20PCMCIA%20Card&keywords=pcmcia%20video%20c ard&search=search&gclid=CIDmtrrPj5ACFQU6awod8BEYtw

Google: PCMCIA video card
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12/4/07 at 2:02pm
My bad...they stopped making them about 3 or 4 years ago. There might be large external solutions like this:

http://www.fareastgizmos.com/computi..._computers.php
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12/4/07 at 2:03pm
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Originally Posted by FrankenPC View Post
My bad...they stopped making them about 3 or 4 years ago. There might be large external solutions like this:

http://www.fareastgizmos.com/computi..._computers.php
That's not PCMCIA... that's ExpressCard.
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12/4/07 at 7:49pm
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post #7 of 36
12/6/07 at 9:50am
Does the laptop have USB 2.0? If so you friend may be in luck:

http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/12/06/more-usb-video-cards/
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post #8 of 36
5/6/09 at 6:34pm
Follow this link

http://sewelldirect.com/product.aspx...FQU6awod8BEYtw
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post #9 of 36
5/6/09 at 8:44pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nevaziah View Post
So a friend of mine got shafted buying a VAIO laptop. the salesdude said it had 256mb of memory. Turns out the ACTUAL PHYSICAL memory is 8MB the rest is virtual video memory.
He cant add a video card in the laptop, so he's looking for ways to ugprade. Lokking at PCMCIA devices, is there such a thing as a PCMCIA video card or is he better to sell the damn thing and buy a modable lappy or just buying a desktop on the side?
The model is SONY VAIO PCG-7Y2L
A piece of advice for the future: never ever take the salesperson's word on this or that with regards to computers (or technology) as the final trustworthy word. Try to do the research on the laptop before jumping on the purchase. Most of the time those sales people have no clue what their talking about (example: Best Buy sales reps).
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post #10 of 36
5/6/09 at 9:02pm
There are some external GPU's but at this point the connection interface is the bottleneck. So no you are out of luck. Oh and this old! USB/anything else just lacks the bandwidth.
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